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CBS Action moves to channel 39 on Freeview

The change is part of a Freeview reshuffle, which also sees BBC News moved to channel 231 and Sky News to channel 233. CBS Action +1 will also move up the electronic programming guide to channel 64.

The change comes as CBS Action prepares for a summer filled with fast-paced drama. As well as continuing audience favourites such as NCIS, Texas Ranger and MacGyver, August will see the premiere of season three of Diagnosis Murder on the channel.

Starting on August 19 and airing weekdays at 7pm, Diagnosis Murder follows a team of medical experts who assist the LAPD in tricky criminal cases. Dick Van Dyke heads up the team as Dr. Mark Sloan, the Chief of Internal Medicine at Community General Hospital, while Barry Van Dyke, Michael Tucci, Victoria Rowell and new addition Charlie Schlatter also play main roles on the series.

Season three sees the team fight biological warfare, investigate a drive-by shooting and even examine the case of a mysterious mid-flight murder.

That’s not to mention, Western Weekends will be returning in August, during which each of the classic Gunsmoke movies will be airing every Sunday at 6pm.

Starting on Sunday, August 6, CBS Action will host the adventures of retired Marshal Matt Dillon as he confronts foes old and new.

Catch all of this and more on CBS Action on channel 39 on Freeview from today.

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New Sky drama Delicious marks a transition in gender equality on screen and off

Christmas, a period famed for food and family drama, is fast approaching. It’s therefore fitting that new Sky drama Delicious is coming to our screens this holiday season.

Delicious is, you guessed it, a brand new series that puts food and family drama at its heart. It stars Dawn French as Gina Benelli, a food lover and the former wife of the hugely successful restaurateur Leo Vincent (Iain Glen). They divorced some seventeen years ago after Leo had an affair with the younger Sam (Emilia Fox), the polar opposite of Gina. When Sam begins to suspect that Leo may be having another affair, she confides in the one person she thinks will understand – Gina – unaware that it is with his former wife that Leo has reconnected. The affair leads to the reveal of some seriously well-kept secrets and drama ensues.

It sounds like a simple story with one philandering man at the focus of events, but what’s special about Delicious is that it really is all about women, on screen and off. There is a trend in current television to increase gender representation, and no better is this transition marked in the cast and crew of Delicious. On camera, we have the phenomenal partnership of Dawn French and Emilia Fox (with appearances from Sheila Hancock, who plays Leo’s formidable mother Mimi) portraying very different but remarkably nuanced, complex women. Behind the scenes, Delicious is produced by Phillippa Giles for Bandit Television and Anna Ferguson for Sky and in part directed by Clare Kilner. Considering women only account for 25.7% of British film producers and 14% of television drama directors, that’s pretty good going.

That’s not to say that supportive men haven’t also been crucial to the creation of Delicious. Dawn French was initially so taken aback by Delicious‘ writer Dan Sefton’s ability to write women that she questioned him about it. She said: “I asked him, ‘How do you know this stuff?’, and he said, ‘I’m married, I have a mother, and a mother in law’. […] He has just listened to women.”

The differences between working on Delicious in terms of gender representation have not gone unnoticed by the show’s cast. Iain Glen said: “Some dramas are trying to address the imbalance but the vast majority of the time, you look across the set and it’s completely imbalanced, there are far more men in the crew and cast. In this, the three main producers and one of the directors were all women. That’s very refreshing to me.”

At its heart, Delicious is a story about women, created by women and men who have listened to women.

Emilia Fox sums it up best: “This is absolutely a much more complex story than two women still vying for the love of one man.

“[It’s] about the survival of both Sam and Gina as women and mothers, who discover that secrets are painful and truth is the only way forward.”

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Groundbreaking new series Born This Way reveals what life is really like for those with Down’s syndrome

For every thousand babies born in the UK, one has Down’s syndrome – yet how many characters in film, television and literature can you name with an extra chromosome?

The representation of young men and women with Down’s syndrome in the media is shockingly negligible. Yet 40,000 people with Down’s syndrome live alongside us in the UK, invisible on film, television and books.

The groundbreaking new series Born This Way seeks to change the way we view individuals with Down’s syndrome, and indeed, make them a more visible minority with the same hopes, fears and struggles as anybody else.

From the creators of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Born This Way was nominated for three Emmys in 2016 and won one, for “Outstanding Unstructured Reality Programme”. The show follows the lives of seven young adults and their families as they live, work and play.

In six episodes, we’ll watch insurance company worker Rachel, self-professed ladies’ man Sean, aspiring rapper John, customer service provider Steven, student Cristina, entrepreneur Megan and lover of life Elena tirelessly pursue their passions, face life’s challenges head on and never hold themselves back. There are setbacks, of course, and they’re painfully relatable.

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Celebrities to go on a road trip down memory lane in new series Stars in their Cars

Celebrities will take a road trip down memory lane in new series Stars in their Cars, which begins tonight on Travel Channel at 9pm.

Paddy McGuinness will front the new series, which sees ten of Britain’s favourite celebrities rediscover the cars they’ve driven and owned throughout their lives.

From their first ever cars, to the cars they drove at the height of their fame, to the old reliables they (maybe) drive now – McGuinness is set to take the celebrities on the nostalgic trip of a lifetime.

In their old motors, the stars will revisit the places in their lives that have helped them get to where they are today. For many celebs, it’s a surprisingly emotional tale of old bangers, sleek Italian supercars and classic British motors. For others, it’s simply hilarious (some of those first cars are really awful, after all).

In tonight’s episode, award-winning actor Neil Morrissey will be the first celebrity to take part on the show, where he’ll be reunited with a British classic car, relive his glory days on Men Behaving Badly in another and drag race in one of America’s finest motors.

Stars in their Cars starts tonight (October 12) on Travel Channel at 9pm.

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BLAZE: What to watch on your newest free-to-air channel!

Located on Freeview channel 83, BLAZE will premiere shows that have never been seen before on free-to-air television, including hits such as Pawn Stars, Mountain Men and American Restoration.

The channel is available 24 hours a day and also offers live streams online and the ability to catch up on mobile or tablet. That’s right, our long boring commutes just got way more exciting.

If you’re wondering what you can watch on BLAZE, here are a few highlights from the next few weeks on the channel:

Pawn Stars

Weeknights at 9pm and 9.30pm

Pawn Stars is the hit American reality television series about the daily activities at World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, a 24-hour pawning business in Las Vegas, Nevada. It follows the lives of the shop’s operators – the Harrison family – and their staff, as they bargain over prices, learn the unique history behind new items and (of course) feud amongst each other.

American Restoration

Weeknights at 8pm and 8.30pm

If you can’t get enough Pawn Stars, American Restoration is the spin-off featuring Rick Dale – an antiques expert from the show. He runs Las Vegas’ Rick’s Restorations, a family business that identifies and restores beautiful and historically significant objects. Rick’s on hand throughout the series to delve into the unique stories behind the items during the restoration process.

Mountain Men

Weeknights at 10pm

Mountain Men follows the unbelievable real escapades of men who live in astounding daily conditions in the wild. Firstly there’s Eustace Conway, who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. He teaches visitors survival skills and earns his keep using ancient techniques to harvest firewood. In Alaska, there’s Marty Meierotto, who traps animals in the snow to collect furs. In Montana, there’s lion hunter Rich Lewis… need I say more?

Storage Wars

Weeknights at 7pm and 7.30pm

Does Storage Wars need any introduction? Storage Wars follows the lives of a group of professional buyers who bid on the content of disused storage containers. They hope to sell the items inside for a profit, but there’s one little catch: they cannot properly examine the containers’ content before bidding. Prepare for explosive auction wars, bidder feuds and brilliant drama all round.

Ax Men

Sundays from October 9 at 10pm and 11pm

Danger is the name of the game in Ax Men, which explores the lives of logging families around the United States. These fearless individuals risk their lives day and night in the most isolated of environments, all to retrieve the timber that pays for their keep. Loggers handle dangerous equipment on a daily basis and frequently put themselves in situations that would drive health and safety officers mad, but it makes for great television.

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Karla Crome plays a shady detective leading a double life in new Friday night drama The Level

Friday nights need a little bit of a thrill as we edge into the chilly Autumn months. Thankfully, ITV is here to help with bold new drama The Level, which explores a dangerous alliance unlike one you’ve ever seen.

Starting tonight at 9pm, The Level is the story of Nancy Devlin (Karla Crome) – a Detective Sergeant who leads a shady double life. With an excellent police record, Nancy appears to all to be the perfect example of what a copper should be. Her sparkling record masks a dangerous connection to businessman and drugs trafficker Frank Le Saux (Philip Glenister).

It’s Nancy who pulls the strings to make sure Le Saux stays off the police radar. He is the father of her best friend Hayley (Laura Haddock), and the two share an mysterious connection.

However, Nancy’s days playing this dangerous game seem numbered when she becomes the subject of an investigation herself. A homicidal individual begins stalking her, and whats worse, they threaten to expose her secret.

Check out the trailer here:

The Level features an all-star cast, also including Noel Clarke, Robert James Collier, Lindsey Coulson, Gary Lewis, Jo Absolom, Amanda Burton and Ruth Madeley. It is a new, six-part drama from the BAFTA award winning indie Hillbilly Television.

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New ITV thriller Paranoid explores murder in broad daylight

Where is the place one is least likely to be murdered?

The thought that springs to mind immediately is in the broad daylight, surrounded by large numbers of eyewitnesses. It would be even better if those eyewitnesses could be innocent and honest, like charity workers, or maybe mums and young children.

Paranoid, the gripping new thriller from ITV, examines a murder that takes place on that very premise – a place where one would usually feel safe and secure (although perhaps for not much longer).

Paranoid follows the investigation that ensues when a mother is brutally stabbed to death by a hooded person in the middle of a busy children’s playground.

An international conspiracy thriller is about to commence that these detectives never wanted nor suspected.

Producer Tom Sherry said: “Paranoid lays bare the human and emotional story of a group of detectives hell-bent on capturing a killer, but there are unexpected twists and turns every step of the way.”

ITV’s Director of Drama Steve November added: “Paranoid is a taut, compelling eight part series with all the hallmarks of a classic psychological thriller. Bill [Gallagher, writer] has written some incredibly well-defined characters who embark on a terrifying murder investigation as it becomes evident from the outset that malevolent forces are at play.”

Ultra HD is the most immersive telly-watching experience yet, and we love it

For film and television fans, the sudden urge to climb in through the television screen and join the characters in their adventures is commonplace. Unfortunately, that technology doesn’t yet exist, but the most immersive television experience yet has arrived.

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Ultra HD is the most immersive telly-watching experience yet, and we love it

For film and television fans, the sudden urge to climb in through the television screen and join the characters in their adventures is commonplace. Unfortunately, that technology doesn’t yet exist, but the most immersive television experience yet has arrived. It’s called Ultra HD, and it’s – hooray! – newly available to normal people like us, courtesy of Sky and their next generation box Sky Q.

Ultra HD, is the latest picture quality with up to four times the definition of HD. This dramatic increase in definition makes for the most spectacular and immersive television experience yet, meaning viewers can observe the smallest details with crystal-clear clarity. Personally, we think Ultra HD is better than actually going outside and looking at things – but then again, the term “couch potato” is popping up in our lives with increasing frequency.

Not that it matters, because we won’t be going outside in a long time. Sky has made the widest range of Ultra HD content available to Sky Q 2TB box subscribers. They’re not only offering Ultra HD on a couple of artsy short films we’ve never heard of, but on their humungous library of modern and classic films. In fact, some of this year’s hottest cinematic releases are set to premiere on the service – in, you guessed it, ultra high definition.

It means Sky Q users will be the first in the country to experience James Bond’s mission to infiltrate the enigmatic criminal organisation known as Spectre in a show-stopping 8.3 million pixels.

There’s also the opportunity to see the sensational Patagonian scenery in all its glory on Oscar-winning The Revenant, travel to Ridley Scott’s magnificent vision of life on Mars in The Martian or witness every shocking detail of the terrifying Cold War in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies.

It’s not just a party for film fans, however. Sky will also broadcast brand new and original television drama, including the Paolo Sorrentino’s eagerly-awaited papal drama The Young Pope, starring Jude Law, in Ultra HD.

For documentary lovers, there will be more than thirty hours of award-winning documentaries also available in Ultra HD. This is probably as close to reality as our dreams of actually accompanying David Attenborough to the depths of the rainforest are going to get. It’s likely safer, too.

Sports fans will be able to take a seat in the stands without leaving the house with 124 Premier League games and every Formula 1 race from 2017 available to watch in Ultra HD.

Ultra HD is available to Sky Q 2TB box subscribers though does require a television that supports Ultra HD. If you’ve got all this, you tune into the stunning visuals of Ultra HD by going into the box settings and selecting 2160p resolution on the audio visual set up.

It’s probably the most immersive cinematic experience us normal people are going to have at home until technology giants finally perfect their affordable virtual reality devices, and we love it.

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Cold Feet returns to ITV

More than ten years have passed since we said goodbye to Adam, Pete, Jenny, Karen and David on ITV’s much-loved Cold Feet. Tonight, the characters we loved are back, older but not necessarily wiser, on our television screens once more.

When we last left Cold Feet, Adam was struggling to raise little Matthew after the loss of his soul mate Rachel, Pete and Jenny were stronger than ever after a series of break ups and David and Karen had called it a day on their marriage.

Cold Feet creator Mike Bullen, said: “This feels like the right time to revisit these characters, as they tip-toe through the minefield of middle age. They’re 50, but still feel 30, apart from on the morning after the night before, when they really feel their age.”

Indeed, a lot has changed in the years we’ve spent apart, but fans can be reassured a lot has remained the same. As we return to the present day, Pete and Jenny’s relationship is strained. The economic downturn has cost Pete his job, and he feels increasingly isolated as Jenny’s salary can barely support them.

David’s relationship with solicitor Robyn is now over, and, more worryingly, his lavish lifestyle is in question. The workplace seems swamped with bright new young professionals threatening – in his mind – to usurp his position. Can David remain on top of his game without resorting to underhand methods?

Karen on the other hand has seen success after success. She’s reached the top of her career while raising her three children almost single-handedly. She’s proven she can handle pressure, but can she deal with her life slowing down? With her kids about to fly the nest and her career stagnating, could Karen’s greatest challenge still be ahead of her?

Then there’s Adam, who’s now happily settled in Singapore. He returns home to his friends with an exciting announcement – but it completely shocks his friends.

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Super Saturdays return to ITV from tonight

Cancel your Saturday night plans, order a pizza and kick back and relax for a night in front of the box – that’s right, Super Saturdays are back on ITV!

From today (September 3), entertainment enthusiasts will be able to spend their Saturday evenings enjoying back-to-back quality programming. Starting with brand new talent-based game show Go For It! at 7.15pm, viewers will then tune in for the second week of weird and wonderful X Factor auditions at 8.15pm, before polishing off the night with the acclaimed satirical puppet show Newzoids at 9.15pm.

New game show Go For It! will see talented members of the public asked to use their special skills to complete sensational challenges for the chance to win £1,000. Stephen Mulhern will host the series, which is set to shock and amaze as contestants complete (or fail) utterly unbelievable challenges.

If you need a hearty laugh at a political climate (providing you’re not already laughed out, that is), the second season of Newzoids will be right up your street. Newzoids enhances live action puppetry with CGI effects and satirises some of the most prominent figures in politics, entertainment and sport. This season, we’ve been promised guest appearances from puppets Jeremy Corbyn, Adele and Donald Trump.

And of course, the X Factor needs no introduction.

Tune into Super Saturdays on ITV from 7.15pm on Saturday, September 3.